1teaspoonPrincess Cake and Cookie Flavor, or ½ teaspoon vanilla and ¼ teaspoon each of almond and orange extracts
1 ½cupsKing Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
1cupfinely ground old fashioned oats, not the quick or instant kind
Glaze
3cupscandy coating such as Wilton Melts. Use your favorite colors or get white and color with oil based candy coloring.
2tablespoonswhite vegetable shortening(I know, I know but it's only a tiny bit and you really do need it)
Sprinkles
Instructions
Cookies
Beat together the butter, sugar, honey, salt, baking soda, and flavoring until completely combined and smooth.
Mix the flour and the ground oats.
Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and beat until smooth.
Refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
Lightly grease baking sheets, use parchment, or Silpat.
Take the dough out of the refrigerator and place it on a floured counter.
Roll ¼ inch thick.
Flour the cookie cutters and then cut the cookies.
Place on baking sheets.
Put the cut cookies in the freezer for 30 minutes
Preheat the oven to 350°F.
Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until golden. Longer baking time will result in crisper cookies but watch them carefully!
Remove the sheets from the oven and let the cookies cool for 10 minutes.
Transfer to rack to cool completely.
Icing
Melt the candy coating and vegetable shortening (stir often!) in the microwave until smooth.
Push each cookie upside down into the melted coating.
Lay coating side up on the cookie sheet and add sprinkles.
Let set.
Notes
Yield varies depending on the size of your cookie cutters. You can find out the exact values by dividing the following numbers by the number of cookies you got out of the recipe: Total calories: 5900....Total Fat: 339.5...Total Carbs: 655.1